Longtime readers of this blog know that I’m an advocate for adding transcripts to podcasts and captions to videos.
Not only do they make your podcasts and videos accessible to a wider audience, transcripts and captions make search engines happy: they can now index your content. Continue reading Podcasts and Transcripts: An Interview with Alaina Wiens
As I read my Twitter stream this morning, a tweet from Poynter captured my attention:
Remember those college kids who launched a transcription service? After journalists crashed it, they rebuilt it.
https://t.co/CdIi3qyUeh pic.twitter.com/Cxvhz3Jhxl— Poynter (@Poynter) July 31, 2017
An online transcription service that quickly transcribes audio files, how did I miss this news last May?
From today’s article, I learned that when Poynter shared the news about the Happy Scribe transcription service in May 2017, journalists quickly tried out the online tool for their transcripts. Continue reading Happy Scribe: Online Service to Create Transcripts for Your Audio and Video